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For a good while, I've been interested in going to Japan's Comiket convention, since it's dedicated to people selling their fan works and/or original indie creations. Luckily, Edelweiss (Astebreed, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin) uploaded a ...

World End Economica, the visual novel trilogy from Spice & Wolf writer Isuna Hasekura, is coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2017, the localization team at Sekai Project just announced.
While Sekai Project and developer Spi...

Once upon a time, Touhou games, despite being something of a phenomenon in Japan, didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of ever seeing a western release. But it's clearly no longer that time.
NIS America has announced plans to publish&nbs...

During the waning hours of a Montréal game jam, I spied a developer playing Downwell on his laptop. Unlike the rest of his comrades, mostly female designers making last-minute adjustments to their projects, he was enjoying someo...

XSEED Games just announced plans to publish a trio of indie games (Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity, physical editions of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero on select platforms, and Exile's End).
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity is a fan-made action role-pla...

In the 1960s, the United States imposed an embargo upon Cuba that has, for more than 50 years, forbid American citizens and companies from doing business within the nearby island nation.
As a result, the influx of cars into the country, amo...

Wolflame is coming to Steam this Thursday, April 21, micropublisher Nyu Media has announced.
The shooter is the latest in a long line of retro-inspired STGs from Astro Port, the Japanese independent developer behind the likes of Gigant...

Melty Blood Actress Again is coming to Steam on April 19, Arc System Works has announced.
The fighting game is the third in a series based on Type-Moon visual novels Tsukihime and Kagetsu Tohya, the first of which was re...

A new crop of Japanese indie games are coming to PlayStation Network through Play, Doujin!, a joint effort between Sony and Touhou creator ZUN to bring doujin titles to PlayStation systems.
Those games include: Touhou fighter Urban Le...

Touhou game Genso Rondo is coming west this summer, NIS America just announced.
The shoot-'em-up fighting game hybrid will hold the distinction of being the first Touhou Project game to be officially localized for western release....

Doujinsoft studio Zenith Blue's Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae is coming to PlayStation 4 in North America on February 16, Japanese indie game publisher Playism announced today via the PlayStation Blog.
A word of warning, as someone who played the P...

If Kyle's awesome write-up got you salivating, then do I have a treat for you! The awesome folks at Souvenir Circ. and Playism have given us 10 codes for Croixleur Sigma on PS4. Why? To gift to you lovelies, of course. What is this game you...

Doujin Dojo is a sporadic column dedicated to spotlighting independent games from Japan and the people that make them.
In the years I've been following Comiket, Japan's biannual indie media festival, one thing that has always...

Winter Comiket is almost here and that means Astebreed studio Edelweiss has another compilation video showcasing many of the Japanese indie games that will be on sale at this week's big event.
Comic Market 89 kicks off Tuesday, Decembe...

The doujin scene isn't my usual beat, but Astebreed is cool as hell and I like sharing deals whenever possible. As such, hey, you may want to take a look at this Japan-centric Humble Weekly Bundle. No rush! You've got several days, still.
P...

Steel Strider, the sequel to Gigantic Army, is now available on Steam, Nyu Media has announced.
The new shooter comes from Astro Port, the Japanese indie team behind this summer's Tokusatsu-inspired STG Supercharged Robot Vulkais...

I only recently finished La-Mulana, Nigoro's "archaeological ruin exploration action game."
It tried its damnedest to make me quit at every turn; with its obtuse puzzles and tricky platforming, I don't feel it's hyperbole to say it's the mo...

The creator of everyone’s favourite bird dating simulator, Hatoful Boyfriend, has announced its brand new game by the name of Black Holmes.
Hato Moa announced the game through the official website for Black Holmes, which is totally in...

Valve is always looking for an excuse to throw a sale, and this week Steam has deep discounts on Japanese indie games. The occasion? This summer's Comiket is taking place over the weekend.
Comiket (Comic Market) is a biannual event where ov...

Comic Market (or Comiket for short) is scheduled to take place this upcoming weekend, starting August 14. There, hundreds of thousands of people will pour into the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center to get their hands on rare self-published ...

Doujin Dojo is a sporadic column dedicated to spotlighting independent games from Japan and the people that make them.
Every time I talk about PlayStation Mobile, someone inevitably mentions it's the first time they've ever heard ...

Doujin Dojo is a sporadic column dedicated to spotlighting independent games from Japan and the people that make them.
This weekend, Kyoto played host to BitSummit, Japan's top independent games festival. Now in its third year, th...

[Disclosure: The reviewer supported Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm's Indiegogo campaign.]
Yatagarasu has taken a long and winding road to get where it is today.
The doujin fighting game has existed in one form or another since 200...

Got my wings over the I am so happy, sometimes, with Just controlling the fighter is a challenge in itself, but rewarding when you get Ill be hearing missle,missle,missle,beep,beep,beep in my sleep for a

In addition to finding the bad Screwball missions, Im finding a lot of bugs in the Spider-Man DLC Things like input lag seem common but I glitched out a mission somehow and had to abort it and In the base game, 1 enemy spawn in a wall

Ive been seeing such negativity surrounding Travis Strikes Again that I thought Id chime Completed the game, took me around 18 hours, had a great time! Some actually brilliant parts in Will play it all again, gimme that

I never really payed attention to the protagonists in past Ace Combat games, but something about how AC7 handles Trigger gets me totally invested in playing as One of the most interesting uses of a silent protagonist in a